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APPLICATION FILED OCT- 14. 19I5.

Patented June 24, 1919.

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JAMES K. P. PINE, OF TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOYH. TOUNITED SHIRT AND COLLAR COMPANY, OF TROY, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

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I Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 24, 1919.

Application filed. October 14, 1915. Serial No. 55,796.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES K. P. PINE, a citizen of the United States and resident of Troy, Rensselaer county, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Union-Undergarments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to union undergarments, known as one-piece suits, and particularly to what are known as one button suits, in Which the upper front of the garment comprises two fronts and a bib of approximately triangular form at the apex of which is secured a single button, to which the overlapping fronts are secured. It is intended to change the present construction of such garments so as to provide against plaiting the body of the garment while giving an ample overlap of the fronts over the bib to prevent gapping. Heretofore the entire front portion of the garments was made in one piece, both body and legs; hence it was impossible to provide any lap of the upper side fronts on the bib except by laying a plai t in the goods extending down' ward from the lower corners of the bib, which is objectionable, and extending the width of the bib by a separate facing strip; and even then it was practically impossible to get sufficient overlap to prevent gapping, by which cold air was admitted over the lungs of the wearer.

It being evident that the length of the legs and sleeves of the garment forms no part of my invention, I have shown, as a preferred form of my device, an athletic one-piece suit. In the drawing, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my garment in its worn position; Fig. 2 shows the upper part thereof partially unfastened.

11 designates the back and 12 the front of the suit, front 12 being divided into lower portion 13, upper side fonts 14 and bib 15. The garment being shown as of woven goods, 16 is a shoulder strap or yoke of knit material, inserted to provide elasticity. Parts 14 and 15 are faced either by turning the edges of the material or by means of backing strips 17 and 18. A horizontal seam 19 located at or above the waist line connects parts 14 and 15 with front body 12. A button 20 at the upper corner of bib 15 engages with button-holes 21 in both portions 14, as shown.

It will be seen that the front portions 14 and the bib 15 are both stitched to the lower front 13 by seam 19, so that they may be overlapped at their lower edges, and, necessarily, for the entire length of bib 15, to any desired extent. The portions 14 are stitched at their lower outer edges to back 11, by seams 22, their upper outer edges forming the front part of the arm scye, or in the present instance, of the arm openlng. Their inner edges are inclined inwardly from seam 19 so that button-holes 21 overlap, and thence are curved outwardly to form part of the neck-band. It is obvious that the height of bib 15 and the shape of front parts 14 depend upon the relatively high or low cut of the neck opening, the approximately triangular bib being provided at its apex with a securing device, shown as a single button 20, the front parts 14 being provided with cooperating devices, shown as button-holes 21. k

The important feature of my invention lies in making the bib 20 of a separate piece of fabric from the fronts 14, so that an overlap suflicient to prevent any possibility of gapping may be secured.

I make no generic claim herein to the subject-matter which is common to the present application, and to my copending application Serial No. 55,797, filed Oct. 14, 1915, for union undergarments, in which such com mon subject-matter is generically claimed.

What I claim is:

1. A union suit having an upper front portion comprising two side front members, and a bibanember between and throughout its length substantially lapping each of said side front members, each of said side front members being formed of a separate piece of fabric secured by a seam along its lower edge to the lower front portion of the garment, and by a seam along the lower portion of its outer side edge to the body of the garment, and having common means for detachably securing the upper ends of said side front members to said bib-member, said side front-members forming continuous permanent connections between the front and back portions of the garment, extending over the shoulders.

2. A union suit having an upper front portion comprising two side front members and a separate bib-member between and throughout its length substantially lapping each of said side front members, each of the bib-member, said side front-members 10 forming continuous permanent connections between the front and back portions of the garment,- extending over the shoulders.

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said members being formed of a separate piece of fabric secured by a seam along its lower edge tothe lower front portion of the garment, each of said side front members having the lower portion of its outer edge secured by a seam to the body of the gar ment, the upper ends of said side front Witnesses: members being detachably secur'ab'le' by a GEO; S. COOPER, common fastening means to the upper end of B. H. DAVEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for d re gents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

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